Hi all,as part of my studies I'm exploring the multiple roles environmental discourses are engaged by different environmental movements, at a both grassroot level as well as at an institutional and policy related one. Notions of equilibrial ecologies,and the way in which human impact can be detrimental to it (and discoursively tends to be) , are in fact pervasively common in popular understandings of environmental sustainability.In relation to such anthropogenic 'pressures', I'm striken by the complexities of the ways in which nature-culture dichotomy is discussed in these environmental narratives and particularly in how agriculture problematizes that boundary in a significant way, as much as cattle does.Has anyone got any reference to material written on 'agricultural identities' (if such a thing exist in a non deterministic sense - with it I mean the particular way in which the cultivation of land impacts people's understanding of nature) to suggest? Of course different ways of doing agriculture represent the materialization of different understanding of culture (monocropping vs small scale horticulture), but was wondering if there is any material out there which frames that relationship in more general terms.I would really appreciate any help! thanks, sara.See More

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